Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.

P. J. O'Rourke

Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

Pablo Picasso

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Pablo Picasso

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

Pablo Picasso

All things considered, there is only Matisse.

Paul Morley

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.

Paul Hornung

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Paul Hindemith

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

Paul Johnson

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

Paul Buchheit

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

Paul Cellucci

We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.

Paul Celan

We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

Patterson Hood

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Patsy Kensit

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

Patti LaBelle

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Oscar Wilde

Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Oscar Wilde

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Maeve Binchy

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Mae West

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

Mae West

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Mae West

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Mae West

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Madonna Ciccone

It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far.